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A woman has been found dead after a suspected gas explosion saw a house destroyed in Kingstanding, Birmingham last night. West Midlands Fire Service...

One house has been destroyed and several others have been significantly damaged after an explosion in Birmingham. West Midlands Police has said there have...

Motorist William Smith was proud of his perfectly clean driving record before he crashed his car last year. The 50-year-old was driving home after...

Boris Johnson wants to serve a third term as prime minister despite a bruising week in which the Conservatives suffered two by-election defeats. Speaking...

Boris Johnson has said voters are fed up of hearing about things he had “stuffed up” as he played down a bruising double by-election...

Thousands of people with weekend plans will face disruption and chaos as rail workers strike for the third day this week. Only a fifth...

Boris Johnson has acknowledged that the government’s defeat in two by-elections were not “brilliant results” – but insisted he was not worried about Conservative...

The prospect of strikes affecting BA services at Heathrow this summer are another headache for a struggling airline and also passengers who were, likely,...

British Airways (BA) workers have voted to strike during the school summer holidays in a move set to cause more travel chaos as the...

A member of the infamous Rochdale gang that groomed dozens of girls for sex has told a judge he shouldn’t be deported because his...

Traces of the polio virus have been found during a routine sewage inspection in London, leading the UK Health Security Agency to declare a...

Millions of people have been hit by severe travel disruption on the first day of the biggest rail strike for a generation – with...

Millions of Britons are being hit by severe travel disruption, with only a fifth of train services running today due to the biggest national...

Boris Johnson will condemn unions for what is expected to be the biggest train strike in three decades. Around 40,000 members of the Rail,...

The biggest rail strike in three decades is expected go ahead after last-ditch talks failed, the RMT union said. A walk-out by 40,000 workers...

Motorists are being warned to expect a surge in traffic on the roads when this week’s strikes bring large parts of Britain’s rail network...

Britain is facing a summer of discontent with more workers set to be balloted on strike action, a union chief has warned, as a...

Dame Kelly Holmes has announced she is gay, and says she has hidden it for 34 years. Speaking during Pride month, the two-time gold...

The grounding of the first flight of asylum seekers from the UK to Rwanda was an “absolutely scandalous” move, Priti Patel has said. Judges...